Then an eight-footer snapped over the bow, knocking down Joe Coveney and swamping the deck. 71A: When many stores open (at nine). "The rougher the day, the better the fishing, " he liked to say.
After a late night that Friday, the guys woke up at the family summer house of their host, Andrew Curren. There were two compass directions and one near-compass direction, which just seems lazy: - 66A: Vane dir. And two different times of day. He gunned Jabb into it and crested the wave before it broke, but it wrenched the boat to port, making everyone go "Whoo! After Jason arrived at the Opening, he made a few passes, feeling right at home: when he was eight, on a trip with his father, he'd caught his first striper just off Tuckernuck. "—the roller-coaster yell. He practices yoga and prays effusively and tears up letters from the draft board without reading them and steals busted parking meters from the scenes of car accidents... Happy cry on a fishing boat crossword clue. and generally disturbs the hell out of his more staid roommate ("Orson the Parson"). This was definitely a puzzle where lots of prior puzzle experience paid off. 57D: Answer to "Who's there? " The weekend is predicated on a Hyannis-to-Nantucket sailboat race named for an early competitor's baffled cry: "Where the fuck are we? ") I mean, I got it instantly, so maybe that means it's a good clue, but... couldn't many lands claim to be "poetic? " 10D: Suffix with Brooklyn (ESE) - sorry, still a compass point. Almost all of Nantucket's charter boats cancelled their trips. 6D: Sound of a leak (SSS) - pretty damned close.
What's a "Party Boat? " Tom's Charters usually fished the Opening in one of its two twenty-nine-foot Hawks, big, beamy boats with an unusually low center of gravity. Jason's father, Tom, insisted that his captains observe this precaution: always have the tide pushing you away from danger. The guys, laughing as they regained their balance, were taken aback. The guys' Figawi-weekend trip had been booked by Kent McClintock's girlfriend, Jenn Fenton, who knew the Mleczkos; in 2008, she'd spent the summer on the island, scheduling trips for Tom and babysitting his grandchildren. The second wave, a twelve-footer, hit four seconds later. Jason helped him remove the hook and release the fish, and powered in toward the bar. Alex at once caught a bluefish, and the guys cheered: they'd finally blooded themselves, even if it was only a seven-pounder. ERIN, EULER, and CAIRO, for instance, came instantly, which they would not have even one year ago, and that helped me sail through this puzzle relatively unscathed.
The shoals at the Shallow Spot seemed to lie much as he remembered, and the waves, though strengthening, were only three to five feet. I live quite near UTICA (34A: Erie Canal city) - always nice to have a geographical edge. As the guys cast into the white water, he would let the boat drift out with the current, powering back in every so often but staying on the safe side of the breakers. There was also too much of the puzzle talking about itself: - 40D: "_____ Believer" ("I'm a"). The Opening, described by Robert Lowell as "a brackish reach of shoal off Madaket, " is the most ticklish fishing spot in Nantucket's capricious waters. 67A: "You lookin' _____? "
There are other items of unpleasantness below. Some part of me is pleased to see geographical-sounding answers clued in non-geographical ways: - RENO (21A: Clinton cabinet member). Joe usually had a good sense of humor, but now he handed his rod to Alex Cameron and sat by the center console, soaked and shivering. So overall, this was a BLAND (52D: Short on flavor), if somewhat heartening experience.
PENN (24D: "All the King's Men" star, 2006). The answer we have below has a total of 5 Letters. Lots of crosswordese (both high- and low-end), but no real challenges - only one word that was out of my comfort zone. Now, at 1 P. M., Jason pointed to the map of Nantucket sewn on Andrew's fleece to indicate their route and destination. If a strong wave caught them broadside, they'd just "power slide" sideways. Once they arrived, at 1:45, Jason edged the boat toward a region he called the Shallow Spot, where a shoal lurked two feet down. "HUB" is the main character's nickname. After college, he had roomed in Washington, D. C., with Alex Cameron, a short, smilingly combative man, who'd driven all night from Virginia, where he was attending the business school at U. V. A. Another local captain, P. J. Rubin, had decided to surf the nearby break at Madaket Beach rather than go fishing that day, but he quickly packed it in: "We had double-overhead waves that cleaned out all the best surfers on the island, " he said. Lastly, HUB (28D: Important airport) reminds me of a fantastic John Updike story called "The Christian Roommates, " which I just finished teaching in my Honors Seminar. 63A: Cockpit datum (air speed). Use the search functionality on the sidebar if the given answer does not match with your crossword clue. The only part that gave me trouble was the crossing of PIPETS (47D: Lab tubes) and PHIS (61A: Fraternity letters).
THEME: "Two Kinds of Boats" - 38A: What 18-, 23-, 55- and 63-Across each comprises. Why am I talking about this story? They'd head west along the North Shore, fishing the shoals as they went, then thread a channel south of Tuckernuck Island to reach the outside of a horseshoe-shaped sandbar—the Opening. A strapping six-foot-five fisherman with dirty-blond hair, Jason had the candid, boisterous manner of a golden retriever. Water flooded the deck to the gunwales, washing the tackle bag overboard and sending everyone flying. Jason would have taken Jabb even if the other Hawk had been available; it was his first trip of the season and he wanted the smaller boat's range, so that he could roam in search of stripers.
He had gone to Washington College with Joe Coveney, a chipper financial-data salesman, and Kent McClintock, a banker and an experienced outdoorsman. Shortly before 11 A. M., they put windbreakers on over their sweatshirts and fleeces, grabbed two twelve-packs of Bud Light, kissed their girlfriends, drove to the pier off Madaket Harbor, and trooped aboard. You can visit LA Times Crossword September 24 2022 Answers. He also prided himself on his ability to navigate the white water that stripers frequented. Yet his friend Corey Gammill, who was one of Tom's captains for six years, observed that "Jason would catch fish some other guys didn't, but he also put himself in rough water more. "HOUSE PARTY" was a movie about very bad haircuts, featuring rap duo Kid 'N' Play. I'm not very... nautical.
The churn there has capsized at least four boats in recent memory, and in 2008 a rogue wave swept off both the anglers aboard a boat called the Queen Bee, which kept heading east and wound up, nearly four years later, in Spain. Tom believed that his captains could fish the rips in Jabb if the waves didn't exceed six feet, but he didn't recommend that anyone else try it: "Most of the other captains don't understand what we do and don't have the skill to do it. " "The whole family was warm and welcoming, " she said, "and all his clients always told me Tom was the best. " 43A: Early time to rise (six a. m. ).
Jason looked at his phone, saw that it was 2:08, and suggested they take one last pass. Tom Mleczko, whose four boats constituted the island's largest fleet, was a taciturn, gravel-voiced man who loved to combat the elements.
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